tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50447002011-12-15T06:21:57.796-05:00a korean christian doctor's perspective in an american, secular, sometimes-medical world...ps, if i ever get sued for anything, everything on my blog was made up!tanthemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08099761567251921647noreply@blogger.comBlogger1261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044700.post-56990606856467050222010-08-20T22:10:00.002-04:002010-08-20T23:31:39.684-04:00

isaacIsaac has already been home 3 weeks now. Unofficially, I think we first laid eyes upon him irl on Thursday, July 29 somewhere around 12:15 am. Time flies. Of course, Karen has written about him a lot already. I do want to include a link from a photographer/friend of Karen's who took pics the night he came. Great pics, great entry. So touching.About that night, everything was fairly routine--

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life is shorthttp://brandonpentz.blogspot.com/2010/08/life-well-lived.htmlOur pastor's nephew. Happened upon the link. Sad. Looks like he just celebrated a birthday too.

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adoptionOur little Isaac has finally made it home after a 20+ hour day of travel. He and Karen are both asleep on our bed and Kate's supposed to be asleep but is reading books out loud. But at least she's in bed ... except when she's getting out to get more books. With what will likely be a rare window of semi-stillness in the days ahead, I decided to post a few thoughts. Nothing better to do

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Happy 4thIt's actually the 5th so happy belated 4th. I didn't realize it was so long since my last post. I guess I got so depressed once healthcare reform passed that I took a hiatus. Nothing a good ol' patriotic 4th of July can't fix however.I ran the Peachtree Road Race for the second consecutive time this year. Not really sure why I decided last year would be my first race but it was. Maybe

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"Odd Things" Part 1The historic bill has passed. I've been perusing it (H.R. 3590, search for the bill online here) and looking for random things that made their way into the bill. Here is part 1 of "Odd Things That Made the Cut As Healthcare Reform:"SEC. 4207. REASONABLE BREAK TIME FOR NURSING MOTHERS. Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) is amended by adding at

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"Why Men Like Porn"This is the title to a WebMD article, found here. The article is short but it's hard to believe so much garbage could be packed into so small a space and be found on what I thought was a relatively reputable website. I even used to refer patients to this site for additional medical information. No longer. They make porn sound benign, like you're trying to pick between a plasma

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Delusional (statements by) doctorsLest I be accused of libel, note that I believe the following statements are delusional, not the actual physicians themselves. First, see this article. One of the Mayo Clinics in AZ will no longer be accepting Medicare patients. What is disturbing, however, is a statement by Robert Berenson, a fellow at the Urban Institute and proclaimed expert in Medicare.

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Twynsta in da hausYes, the geniuses at Boehringer Ingelheim have come up with the name "Twynsta" for their new hypertension drug. This could be quite possibly one of the worst drug names in recent memory. Check out this thread on Cafe Pharma. Funny stuff.

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Happy HolidaysI recently got a generic holiday card (I won't say where from) spewing with relativistic thought. I guess that's what it takes to survive this pluralistic world. Here's the text:Whatever is beautiful,whatever is meaningful,whatever brings you happiness ...May it be yours this Holiday Seasonand throughout the coming year.So if you're a child molester and that's what makes you happy,

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Taxes and more taxesGot a lot to write about, Senate headed towards passing their version of health reform. More on that later, though. First off, I have decided to start using typical capitalization. I realize it's a lot easier to read than the all lower-case version. Sorry e.e. cummings, you were an inspiration but it did not last.I have never been a huge fan of lifestyle taxes--you know,

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tough crowd?from the new york times, monday september 21:"Mr. Obama is not usually one to avoid high-risk interviews or dodge hostile crowds. He was the first sitting president to appear on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” ... "so leno is now a "high-risk interview" or has a "hostile crowd"? now that's funny.the above quote was in a story regarding obama's record 5 sunday am interviews pushing

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healthcare reform 2.0well, it's the eve of obama's big speech to a joint session of congress trying to sell his healthcare reform. or is it health insurance reform? regardless, here are a few random thoughts on this whole mess.1. upon further inspection, the additional 2.5% tax on adjusted gross income isn't completely unprecedented (see prior post). heck, we already pay a whole bunch in medicare

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a birthday semi-tributei have kept a mental list (and a short one on my iphone) over the months about how our little love child is like me and how she is like karen in certain ways. as it turns out, today is baby momma's x5th birthday (i know, 25, can you believe it? she doesn't look a day over 24.) so this is a tribute to her. i think last year i hacked into her blog and wrote an entrance as

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health care (?) reformwell, as we are being told now, we're in the midst of health insurance reform, not health care reform. i guess our health care is good enough. it's the insurance that needs work.i thought i would finally weigh in on the debate a little. by no means will this be an exhaustive evaluation; heck, i'm here with a glass of wine with cnbc on in the background. not exactly the

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practice makes perfect?in case you were wondering if that med student or resident physician seeing you had any clue what they were doing, check it out. good to know mannequins are making it into the world of "intimate exams." we actually had the opportunity in med school to do intimate exams during our physical diagnosis class by joining groups with members of the opposite sex. needless to say,

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controversya somewhat controversial bill quietly zipped through texas recently. check out this article. i can't say i'm all for the bill. i'll elaborate on why later but i wanted to put up the link so i wouldn't forget.

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missing the pointthis is crazy. there was a recent meeting at the white house consisting of "stakeholders" in the debate to lower healthcare costs. here's a link to the people who showed up to the meeting. what group is noticeably missing? how about representatives from the american bar association? i would have liked a commitment from their members to not file frivolous lawsuits against

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it's match day!today, senior med students around the land find out where they will be going to residency courtesy of a computer somewhere out there which spits out a list combining the wishes of students and the residency programs. i think they find out at noon or sometime no too long thereafter. let the parties begin because starting july 1, your life is over. ha! good luck to all, i'll be

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jama--journal of the american medical association ... losing relevance?i recently read such an outlandish story, i had to come out of hiatus to report it. here's a link to an article in the wall street journal from their health blog section. apologies if you can't get to it, can't remember if you need to be a subscriber to access it. just in case you can't get to it, i have an excerpt below. as a

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screeningthis post is in response to another post by a real medical writer friend regarding screening tests for certain diseases. see the related post here.basically, the question is, when should you start looking for diseases in people even if they have no symptoms (hence, screening)? a reader on the other post commented about ovarian cancer. she is a little on the younger side for women who get

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are you ready to die?i know that sounds a bit macabre, particularly in light of this joyous holiday season, but as the year unwinds, i think it's a question that everyone should consider, sooner rather than later. now, oddly enough, i'm not even talking about the spiritual component which is what you might expect around christmastime. i'm actually talking about the realm of living wills and

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n'awlinsdo you know what it means to miss new orleans? that's how the old line goes in a song sung by many. well, i know harry connick, jr. sang it but not sure if he originated or not. if he did, then way to go harry, i like that song. anyway, karen got us tickets to see harry at the cobb energy performing arts center (stunning name, i know) earlier this week. he has a new christmas album out

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holy molyyes my friends, i'm back. it's been almost a month since the last post. time flies when you're busy watching tv ... i mean, saving lives in the hospital.my parents are in cancun right now. that scares me. they usually travel with friends or other korean travel groups so i don't worry about them as much but this time they're on they're own. do they speak spanish? no. fortunately it's

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back in actionjust wanted to give a quick word on an article i came across. click here for more details. basically it's a study showing larger bmi (body mass index, a measure of how "big" you are) women were sexually as active as thinner women, maybe even more so. what i love about the story is the following quote from one of the researchers: "These results were unexpected and we don't really

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the incredible ... kate?check out this hilarious video of our lovechild as the incredible hulk. i used to love that show.

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thank yeprops to my colleagues at the acp internist blog. i've been linked on their site (see under sept 29 post). recently i came across their "medical news of the obvious" posts and found them very entertaining. i have to say, they took an idea i'm sure many of us have had but actually put it to print. i come across a lot of articles in my weekly perusings and a number of them come to such

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patient behaviorat the risk of alienating some patients, check out this hilarious article on patient behavior. not sure how long the link will last but worth reading. here's the original article on medscape. there's a chance you might need to register to read it but give it a try.

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"two protons walk into a black hole ... "if you have access to the wall street journal, check out this article. pretty funny. it's about physicists taking a workshop on how to be funny. i think i like the line in the article "do my bosons give you a hadron" even better. there's no limit to how funny physicists can be. i'm sure there's an integral in there somewhere ... limit of physicists as

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casure, in your science class, ca might refer to calcium or california in geography or something else in some other class but if you hear your doctors talk about ca, they're talking about cancer. sometimes we use it when we don't want to alarm patients, families or others who may be in earshot, particularly when we don't really suspect it but do need to consider it in the possibilities of what

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medical mythsthere was an article in the british medical journal last year about certain medical myths. i am a little jealous because i could have written the article and had my name all over google and pubmed if i had thought of the idea but i didn't. isn't that the way with most things in life? anyway, it proclaims "sometimes even doctors are duped." if that's the case, i would say find another

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"the eagle has landed"these were the words spoken by my wife when we got our phones in the mail. now, just to be clear, there is a backlog on iphones so the phones which came were my wife's and my parents' phones (none of which are iphones and we're all on one family plan now). however, this was a big step in my iphone access process. you see, i have had sprint service for 8 years. as a matter of

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cpr articlekaren's friend kristi writes for the knoxville news sentinel and has an article about cpr covering the compression-only concept that i discussed previously. (am i really "discussing" it if i'm just writing about it on the blog and not actually talking with anyone? guess not. reminds me of a friend who asked if you could be a "wino" if you drank beer or liquor and not wine. initially i

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on oregon and deathnothing profound here, just a link to a fox news article. apparently, a guy was signing up for oregon's state-run health plan and instead of an offer to help treat his metastatic prostate cancer, he got a letter offering physician-assisted suicide! okay, there's more to it than that but that's the gist of the story.chemo and other costly therapy for terminal illnesses or

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medical minuteplease note, this is just generic info and not specific medical advice. if you have any medical problems or questions, please discuss these with your doctor.i love those little disclaimers on commercials and such.anyway, for real, i wanted to give a little more update on tony snow and colon cancer. i remember hearing that his mom also died of colon cancer but what i didn't know was

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r.i.p. dr. debakeywith the rash of media personality deaths lately, i must include the death of dr. michael debakey. he actually died on the same day as tony snow but for some reason i didn't hear about it until yesterday. most med students probably hear debakey's name before knowing anything about him because he has a surgical clamp named after him. dr. debakey was a pioneer in surgeries of the

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r.i.p. tony snowin case you didn't hear, tony snow died this morning after a battle with colon cancer. here's an nytimes story. in case you didn't know, he was a christian as well. here's a christianity today article he wrote. big losses in tvnews/politics lately with tim russert's recent death as well. i guess a reminder to all about the brevity of life.

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thank you, thank youi hope to surprise my SIL (sister-in-law for all you people who don't spend disturbingly large amounts of time on the internet) by thanking her for listing me in her award list for blogs she likes. odd sentence structure there. whatever, i'm too lazy to change it ... but apparently not too lazy to write another sentence about how i'm lazy. interesting. anyway, i'm also

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viewer mailokay, i'm gonna spend a minute discussing some important questions that came up in a viewer comment regarding the recent cpr post.first, the aha (american heart association) advisory committee and i want to emphasize that whether you do traditional cpr with mouth-to-mouth or compressions-only cpr, the survival is similar. having said that, another way of looking at it is that, if there

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happy b-day kiddo!okay, i can finally wish kate a real happy birthday, not happy 173rd day of life or happy 7 months as in the past but happy 1 year! that's right friends, one year ago today, kate made her descent down the ol' birth canal and into this world. (karen loves it when i talk this way.) i don't think the shape of her head has quite recovered from the trauma. ha! fortunately for me,

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july 1what's the significance of this day? in some worlds it might be a new tax year, for others a transition to the back half of the calendar but for me it's ... new interns! (in case you didn't know, interns are first-year residents, vis-a-vis "internists" who are internal medicine doctors finished with residency.)yes folks, that's right, in hospitals all across this great big land of ours,

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crazy koreans and keeping up with the lims (limses)i'm trying to keep up with my wife's blogging frequency but it can't be done. regardless ("irregardless" ... i still laugh when people say that ... if you don't know what i'm talking about then don't worry about it but listen for a chuckling asian man in the back when you say it), i think this is the most number of posts i've had in this short a

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tim russertby now most of you may have heard about the unexpected passing of tim russert this past week. apparently he had issues with his weight (not a surprise), cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. it's interesting to follow the media (including the medical media) about his untimely death--so many questions about whether he was on the right medications, could his death have been prevented, should

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happy father's day!or is it fathers' day? i guess it could really be both but probably fathers' if we're including everyone out there. i mean, it's not just one father out there who has the holiday, is it? if so, that's one cool dad. i have had a nice and relaxing day watching various sporting events while my wife has been tending to the babe. kate got me a nice card with $50 stuck inside! i

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pacis, pacis everywhereso we have this new trick where we put a couple of pacis in the crib when kiddo goes to sleep. until she actually falls asleep, she'll stand, roll around, sit, stare at the wall, do whatever kids do in cribs and frequently the paci will end up on the floor or stuck behind the crib against the wall. then, of course, she'll cry and we'll have to go in there to plug her back

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surf, sun, walking and contestswe just got back from surfside beach (just south of myrtle) yesterday after a trip with karen's side of the fam. of course she has all the pics and pertinent details so check out her blog. my memories are of getting sick deep sea fishing and getting sunburned. karen has some great pics of that. i swear i did use lotion but either not enough or stayed out too long.

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more names and suchoh yeah, i also get tanya sometimes.another thing i didn't mention but i guess in part due to my name, people frequently confuse me with a woman on the phone. i just got off the phone with the computer (or "computor" as one of the signs in our building says) help desk to reset my password and he kept calling me ma'am. now i know my voice can sound a little high at times but

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in your faceapparently there is some trash-talking going on in the blogosphere about the delinquency of my posts. bets were on that i wouldn't blog today but in the words of ub40, here i am baby! as you may know, my dear wife (dw?) is on the cusp of hitting the bigtop in the blog world. her site has appeared on celebrity baby blog and she even has readers that we have never actually met. i think

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habla ingles?karen's been getting on to me for being so delinquent with my blog. of course her blog is taking off now with people all over the world and web-famous people viewing it. if you're looking for pictures of kate, most of them will be probably be on her blog since they're on her computer and not mine. i will include an occasional pic, especially if it's a funny one that karen doesn't

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videonot sure how long the link will work but you have to see this video. to give a little background, there's been some controversy with this mayor in a nearby suburb. she apparently has also claimed the police roughed her up. my favorite quote: "and they just basically took me to the ground, tussling my arms are bruised, uh, my neck, i have a lump here, um, my knee, uh ... was hurt." ha ha!

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what's in a name?okay, karen's been bugging me to write about my name--how i got it, what it means, etc. well, first of all, my birth name is dae hyun, which means something to the effect of "wise" and "strong" in korean. i think the names are actually of chinese origin, which is a common style of naming but i can't exactly remember which name correlates with which word. anyway, if you say my

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Guest Post from Baby KateHi, Ah-pah! Happy (day after) Doctors' Day! I love you, and I can't wait to see you when you get home today! Love, Kate (with a little help from Mommy)Here are a few photos Mommy took of me in my "Future Doctor" outfit from Aunt Robin. Sorry it's not an official "Doctors' Day" bib, but don't I look cute?Here I am just out of surgery.Checking some x-rays for a

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march madnessyes folks, it's march madness around the lim household. i'm watching basketball these days, mom and kid have their own madness going on with malls and shopping and such. as you can see below, there's been some st. patrick's day madness going on as well. i think karen has a "baby's first ... " bib for all occasions. there might even be a "baby's first arbor day" bib laying around

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it's overyes, the little one is crawling! watch out world. we're gonna have to lock down everything now. she loves pulling on cords and she can track down that froggy pacifier like a missile. in case you didn't believe me, i actually have a video of it here. we should have the froggy paci on bin laden and then we would finally catch him. karen left a couple of weekends ago for tennessee and

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quick updatejust wanted to upload a video. i have a whole bunch of pictures to upload, even from the last post but that will have to wait. karen and kate are actually in tennessee for abigail's b-day. it's weird how boring/mundane it gets when they're not around. on the one hand i'm like "oh yeah, i get to do stuff on my own, play b-ball, go out, party, etc." but after the first night i'm so

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happy b-day, kiddo!yes, kate turned 7 months yesterday, the same day my dad turned 71. no, i don't have pics of kate with her obligatory "i'm 7 months old today" sign courtesy of karen. it's still on the camera i think. there are actually a lot of pictures from significant events lately (zoo, family visits, etc.) that will be posted later, unfortunately. that's what happens when you fall

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the real slim santaokay, the video you've all been waiting for ... for which you've all been waiting. note, this is unedited so there is a repeat reading toward the end but you get the idea. click here for pure youtube joy.

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back from hiatuswow, it's been a while since the last update. didn't think the hollywood writer's strike would be affecting my blog. must be a trickle down effect. well, part of the break was due to illness. karen and kate went to tennessee sometime in december and both of them got sick, although karen didn't seem that bad. i kept joking that karen brought back "tennessee fever" and i was going

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busy busy!the little one has been a busy girl lately. today we went to visit santa at phipps plaza. this apparently is a bigger tradition than i realized. in case you didn't know, phipps tends to be among the more uppity of the malls in the a-t-l. there were some kids behind us who were probably in late elementary or in jr. high and i commented to karen that they were a bit too old to be seeing

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For Colette ... Kate's NurseryHey, this is Karen once again. I told Colette that I'd post pics of Kate's nursery on here. Tanna did a fabulous job with her room, in my humble opinion. :o) He painted, installed a new ceiling fan/light fixture, put the crib and changing dresser together, and he let me buy the cute polka-dot rug! ;o) (That last one took a bit of convincing.)My sister painted the

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new tricks so, the critter can roll over now but only from back to belly. she still has a little trouble getting back "upright" onto her back. amazingly i was able to catch it pretty quickly on this video. of course, she started doing this days ago and karen tells me about it several days after the fact. i had not even seen it until today. i can see our future conversations: "oh, by the way honey

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a brief updateit's karen again. (i bet tanna's going to tell me to get my own blog--lol!)kate had her four-month checkup yesterday. we happen to have a wonderful pediatrician, who gave her a great report! we are so thankful for her health! she weighs a whopping 14 pounds, 10 ounces (75th percentile) and is in the 95th percentile in height! when i refer to kate's pediatrician, i must be sure to

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but wait! there's more!karen here ... with a few updates ...believe it or not, kate actually wore a few more halloween outfits during october! a lot of them i got during the off-season at bargain-basement prices (if you know me, then you know i love me a good bargain!) and others were gifts for our little pumpkin!here she is sporting a festive hat from uncle johnny and aunt anne: here she is

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happy 4 months, kiddo!yes, little one is 4 months old today. what a crazy 4 months it's been. not too much news in terms of new abilities (it's not like she's driving yet). sleeping anywhere from 6-10 hours per night, on average probably 7-8, all thanks to the strict schedules we have been keeping with her and the disciplined structure we have been providing and surrounding her with. that of

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new tricksagain, i have no idea how many weeks old the kid is. i know she's getting close to 4 months though. i think for the first time i/we saw her grab her little toy off of her lap with one hand and then grab it with the other. previously i had to place her hands on it (see "battle of the hands") but now she's doing it on her own. she'll also grab the pacifier out of her mouth at times with

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kid's been activebaby has had a busy time lately! she met jenna bush at a book signing last week and today she met ol' president jimmy carter at a book signing at the carter center (no pic since they wouldn't allow it). of note, pres carter said she was "beautiful." she was wearing her "future president" onesie. it's hard to look too serious in a onesie. not very presidential.she also had her 100

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short updatejust wanted to get this video up. kate's been sticking her hands in her mouth lately, sometimes even double-fisting. every once in a while she will actually discover her thumb and start sucking away as in the video. i'll upload some 3 mo. pictures later. i know the suspense is killing you.

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11 weeks (almost 12) and counting...sorry for the delay on this post. yes, the creature is almost 12 weeks old. wow. it's weird sometimes when karen calls and says something about "my daughter" and i think, "oh yeah i have a daughter!"kate magically is sleeping many more hours at night these days. it does come at some cost because she gets quite cranky at times in the evening, especially the past

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a few new vidshere are a few new videos for those interested.-kate jammin' to mary j-an installment of saga kate, episode "she wakes"-another installment of kate crying...we really tried to console her. but if that doesn't work, get the camera!more great videos on the way, including wifey karen taking one of kate on the changing table stretching. quite funny. all this on next week's episode...

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10 weeks and countingyes, the little rascal is 10 weeks now. she set a personal record the past 2 nights by sleeping 8 hours each night. the first night she slept from 9 pm to 5 am and last night she slept from 11 pm to 7 am. on the other hand, she gets very fussy at times during the early evening. a few days ago she was screaming her head off for almost an hour. i tried to feed her, burp her,

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2 months...or 9 weeks?baby just turned 9 weeks today. 2 months yesterday. there is no way i'm going to be able to keep up with all this week and month business. if people ask me how old she is, maybe i'll just say "well, she's getting up to 6 months" if she's anything less than 6 months and "she's getting up towards a year or so" for anything between 6 months and a year.different parents'

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24/7 broadcast journalismto catch a good story, you have to be on the ball 24 hours a day. if someone famous said something similar, it was probably a little more eloquent than that. anyway, the little critter was stirring around 5 or so this a.m. so i woke up as well. it's the usual "family sleeping on the couches with the kid in the swing" weekend thing. when i woke up, kate was doing her

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am...pm...bmi think this may be kate flashing one of her gangsta signs to her fellow baby peeps.up until last saturday, ol' baby kate had been pooping pretty frequently. actually, the two days prior, she had gone once a day. but then, after a nice early saturday am poop, she went the rest of the day without one and also all of sunday. i started getting paranoid. during my e.r. rotation in

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Guest Blog ... from Karen ... Hi. I had a sec a moment ago to upload this video ... check it out! It's Kate and her cousin Riley--Riley is teaching her "This Little Piggie." Enjoy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7VfBajDPEo

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ms. mohawkhere's a good picture of kate's mohawk. some have accused me of grabbing her hair in the middle in between my fingers and pulling up, thus creating the mohawk style. while i will not deny contributing to the hairstyle in such described fashion, most of this is also naturally occurring.kate had her checkup today. she turned 5 weeks yesterday. kid is 10 lbs. now! up almost 3 lbs. since

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the wild boarthe kid's asleep, a good time to post. as you can see our little bundle of joy just passed 1 month! yikes, it does fly by. i'm off this week as my brother and his fam are in town from california and it feels like it's been forever since i've had a week off but then i realize i had a week and a half off only a few weeks ago when kate was born.so we started a growth chart on our patio

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life with an 8 1/2 day oldis this not the cutest baby you have ever seen (except your own)?! yes, my wife and her sister kept the little munchkin elf with her wrinkly ol' back and legs up for hours trying to take some glamour shots. i guess they paid off.i love triads and syndromes in medicine (think beck's triad, charcot's triad, samter's triad for you trivia buffs). our little one has adapted

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life with a 3 and 1/2 day oldhey, our baby is 3 1/2 days old almost to the minute (originally written at 6:15 pm).okay, let's backtrack. in case you didn't know, karen was pregnant. she did fairly well considering there was this alien creature growing inside of her, almost at times trying to poke out of her body later in the 3rd trimester (i'm talking appendages poking out like at least 1 inch).

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racist rantoh my goodness. i have just read, in part, some of the most racist and ridiculous ranting ever.pat's racist rantthere are so many deeply flawed statements in this story that i don't know where to begin. essentially he is saying that colored minorities are the cause of this country's ills. as someone pointed out in the comments, it's interesting that ol' pat doesn't mention the white

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outsourcing breast milk?yes, just had to break my blog hiatus with this story in time magazine.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1612710,00.htmlthis is some nasty stuff. not only do crazy, hormonal, postpartum women(not to be stereotypical...okay, i was) decide to share breast milk with the babies of their friends or family but they even hire nonpregnant women to breastfeed their

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props1. american express. recently had my laptop on the fritz. actually, it's been months in the making but i finally accepted the reality. after contemplating buying a new laptop (piece of crap was less than 1.5 years old--hp dv4040us), somehow it struck me to check the credit card benefits on which it was purchased. turns out, after much searching, it was purchased on my wife's amex card. for

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nerdy things i dorecently started eating cereal again. mostly to save money on my off weeks. eat a little cereal for lunch, save some money. also not as high in salt and fat as other stuff i usually eat for lunch. need to keep the blood pressure as low as possible for the good insurance rates, you know. i can worry about the diabetes and heart disease later. cereal itself is kinda pricey, however

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of scrubs and selloutsthe sellout would be my fellow blogger bort. now that he's some bigshot in a heme/onc pathology fellowship at a university to be unnamed on the left coast, he has to strip his blog to nearly nothing, even neuter it dare i say, in order to secure a much brighter future than he's had to this point. either blog with all your heart or don't blog at all! yeah, i'm a bigshot, too,

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i am one of the "italians of asia"more news from the homefront thanks to the ever vigilant, fellow-blogger bort who passed this along.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083002985.htmli remember reading about the "korean wave" i think in a wall street journal article in the past year. korean pop culture is permeating all of asia. man, maybe i need to move back.

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more koree newsman, apologies to my fans. i can't believe it's been several weeks since the last post. been randomly busy with work at times. what do i do? i am a (an?) hospitalist. my background is internal medicine and i see patients exclusively in the hospital. in the old days, your doctor would see you in the clinic and if you ever got sick enough to be admitted to the hospital, he (and

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more parishere are some before and after pictures with our "swiss miss lady" (denise acabo) as i named her. my friend and i met her on our first trip to paris. that pic is first. her shop was right down the street from where we stayed so we stopped by her place every day on the way to or from the metro. on our recent adventure we were able to swing by her shop again. that's the second pic, me and

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those crazy japanese!here are some nice pics from some random person i have never met. i'm not even sure how i eventually got to their link but those crazy japanese are at it again. yes folks, it's the festival of the steel phallus!http://flickr.com/photos/megadem/sets/72057594104220700/in other news, looks like evolutionary theory has reached a milestone. everyone, guard your pet monkeys.http://

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breaking news!in a recent article in the anals (pun intended) of internal medicine, researchers from the u of chicago no less, a premier institution, have discovered that interns have significant improvement in alertness when they take naps during overnight call. what an amazing discovery! forget research into cancer or heart disease, we need more dollars into this! i mean, i never knew that

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thoughts about paris (not hilton)so, my wife and i were in paris a couple of weeks ago. what can i say? i thought it'd be easier if i broke it down by category.environmentthe only other time i was in paris was 1998. i was boarding the plane as france won the world cup. pretty cool. the take-home message last time was that the whole city smelled of urine. this time the theme was dog poop. maybe i

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i'm baaaack!man, lots to talk/write about but before i do that, you have to read about a new breed of people i recently heard about on neal boortz: the "sausage casing girls" from the l.a. times, july 4.http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-et-tightclothes4jul04,1,2496518.storyif the link doesn't work, it would be in your best interest to even go to the paper's site, register and search

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AMC Skit 2006we just had our graduation last week and have taped a skit the past 2 years. feel free to view it at your leisure. if you're not a doctor or in our program, it may be of limited use to you but the genre still brings it universal appeal.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9899695653382311going to paris tomorrow!!!

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Yahoo!i have so much to write but i just wanted to spend this moment to let everyone know that i hate yahoo and it sucks!!! it hurts to say that since one of the creators of yahoo (david filo) is a tulane engineering alum, as am i. in addition to the security at work which makes internet usage in general rough, i frequently have problems uploading attachments to email only on yahoo. even at work,

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ignore this oneback in the old days of the blogger, you had to have an account to leave a comment so i created a guest account for people to leave comments and when this thing got updated, that guest spot got called "duvnet" for some unknown reason. soooo, i'm getting rid of the duvnet comments because it's showing up as a contributor to the blog and preventing my profile from showing on my

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of chinese food and beachesokay, so a quick myrtle update. we went a couple of weeks ago with karen's fam, actually to surfside beach which is a few minutes south of the main myrtle beach. it's apparently more of a family-oriented area, a little quieter, not quite as red as myrtle. we stayed in a house just a couple of blocks from the beach, www.vrbo.com/59437 if you ever want to stay there--

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videobefore i forget, check out this video from "king of the hill." he's looking for a new church.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtI2pa2m5cg

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the devil and a birthdayyep, in case you didn't notice yet, it's 6/6/6. really, 6/6/06 but that's not as dramatic. apparently there's a lame omen remake to celebrate the occasion. i had to inform some coworkers at work (kind of redundant...sort of like when interns and even some residents will say "the patient self-extubated himself last night") the significance of 666. some had not even heard of

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looks like the spammers have gotten to me...i've noticed an excessive number of stupid comments left by anonymous spammers. i wonder if they've been reading my blog as well. that would almost be worth it.here in myrtle beach. yeah baby! already got burned...not too bad though. gonna play some golf tomorrow. seafood buffet tonight. oh yeah.

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note: second post as the first did not include all the text and had to retype most of it. what a waste! may need to change services again.man, can't believe it's friday already. tough writing everyday, especially when no one's reading. so sad. winding things down here at the ol' chief resident office. not much to do these days which is why i'm writing now. going on vacation with karen's fam to

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a pic from korea...i'm putting this here temporarily to use it in my profile. yeah.

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poll question: are you planning on circumcising your son?lots of debate about the pros and cons of it. feel free to do your own google search to find the info. a colleague of mine is trying to spread the lie that circumcision is not painful as there are no pain fibers in the foreskin in an infant. here's an interesting article...http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/453637you know who you are: stay

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